The 2025-26 Budget: Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development

Mar 18, 2025 - To understand program impacts and to prioritize future investments, employm ent opportunities can be randomly offered to eligible participants when there are more candidates than jobs available. Using program and state administrative data, third-party evaluators can then follow both participants and randomly rejected candidates to determine whether the program improves outcomes.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5018

Strengthening the CalSTRS Funding Plan

Mar 10, 2021 - Simplifying these aspects of the funding plan could help improve legislative oversight, lessen the volatile effects of investment returns on the state ’s actuarially required contribution rate, and align impacts of investment returns across the state ’s and employers ’ actuarially required contribution rates.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4400

The 2025-26 Budget: Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency Reorganization

Feb 25, 2025 - Each agency would be led by a Secretary, who would be a member of the Governor ’s cabinet. The administration indicates that the departments and other entities currently within BCSH would be placed into one of these two new agencies.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4987

The 2025-26 Budget: EDDNext

Feb 25, 2025 - These include: (1)  disability insurance, short-term wage replacement for workers who are injured outside of work (and therefore not covered by workers ’ compensation insurance); (2)  paid family leave, short-term wage replacement for workers to bond with new children or care for ailing family members; and (3)  unemployment insurance, the state-federal wage replacement program for workers who lose their jobs through no fault of their own.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4985

The 2025-26 Budget: Department of Financial Protection and Innovation

Apr 3, 2025 - These include the following: Investment Program. Regulates the offer and sale of certain financial securities and franchises, and licenses and examines broker-dealers and investment advisors. (Financial securities are tradable financial assets, such as stocks and bonds.)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5025

The 2024-25 Budget: Broadband Infrastructure

Feb 28, 2024 - The Digital Equity Act programs received $2.75  billion nationwide for three grant programs to improve digital equity across specific populations such as low ‑income households, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural areas.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4867

The 2021-22 Budget: Peace Officer Training Mandate [Publication Details]

Feb 4, 2021 - Given the state’s interest in promoting trust in law enforcement and in minimizing unnecessary harm to members of the public, we recommend funding this mandate to ensure FTOs receive at least this amount of training.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/4344

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Consumer Affairs Organizational Improvement Office

Feb 24, 2023 - For example, OIO assigned one staff member to most projects, when it previously would have assigned two. OIO indicates that the proposed increase in positions would allow the office to return to its previous approach and take on additional special projects.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4704

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details]

Apr 10, 2025 - Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities [Publication Details] Translate Our Website This Google ™ translation feature provided on the Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO) website is for informational purposes only.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Detail/5029

Improving Legislative Oversight of Emergency Authorities

Apr 10, 2025 - (For more on this and our recommendations for improving legislative oversight of the E‑Fund, please see The 2023‑24 Budget: Improving Legislative Oversight of CalFire’s Emergency Fire Protection Budget .)
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5029